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For GUIs, Just the Right Degree of Realism

Posted by timothy on from the insightful-line-drawing dept.

mr crypto writes "User interfaces make copious use of pictures and symbols, but how abstract should images be? Lukas Mathis has an interesting blog entry on where to draw the line."

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  1. Well hot damn! by L4t3r4lu5 · · Score: 0, Redundant

    That has to be she shortest stub I've ever seen on Slashdot. I wonder if it's possible to say that the stub is small, and the fact that I want to make this comment shorter than the stub, in less words than are in the stub?

    1, 2, 3, 4... 25, 26, 27, 28 to beat!

    1, 2, 3... 47, 48, 49.

    Shit.

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  2. Re:Thank you, Captain Obvious! by jedidiah · · Score: 0, Redundant

    > How did we end up with a "house" as an icon for your personal files* or a "cog" as a symbol for additional commands in the first place?

    A house icon is the graphical representation of a Unix-ism: $HOME or /home/$USER.

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